If you know the area at all, you will know from that angle that the Millenium Tower is about 700m further away from the camera than the BD.

Drawing a straight line accross the pic gives a false representation.

....a more accute angle to highlight the camera phenomena.....

In that case.....it must be at least 350m in this picture!

In answer to your question AltinD, floorwise they're still on 82 but I take it to the pinnacle of concrete construction.
exluding the steel reinforcing that pokes out above the yellow (now brown) panels!

It can't be classed as official sure, but I try only to give the most accurate detail as I can based on the 'facts' we
already know.

However, if the last official height at level 44 was measured to the last finished floor and not to the uppermost construction
then I suppose that would undersell the average level and by now would put the BD above 315m tall.

I'm sure SSC fans, will stick to their number, for now we'll stick to ours!

But I think we all agree, that 277m at Level 80 was understated!

A strange perspective!

....twising the picture still doesn't give one a sense of dimentional perspective!

"If you know the area at all, you will know from that angle that the Millenium Tower is about 700m further away from the camera than the BD."

Well, im sorry that i've never been to Dubai.. Imre told me that these two towers from that place are the same distance. Also Tom Green made some calculations with the google earth, and he got to the same colnclusion.

I was going go to Dubai at the end of March next year but have decided I'm going again in the second week of January.
I'll be there for a week or so and I'll ask Slugbelch to add the stuff to the forum.

No problem.

Good luck with the interior shots and most of all, HAVE FUN... and don't get busted! We don't need to see a thread of:

You don't have to spend a lot of time with height calculations and stuff to please/prove to others. That's just time taken away from great picture taking. Most of all, just for a little while, put the camera down and just admire what you are actually seeing before you. Very few (even skyscraper forumers) can witness what is beeing done there and you are one, of a very fortunate few, who have the chance.

If you know the area at all, you will know from that angle that the Millenium Tower is about 700m further away from the camera than the BD.

Drawing a straight line accross the pic gives a false representation.

....a more accute angle to highlight the camera phenomena.....

In that case.....it must be at least 350m in this picture!

In answer to your question AltinD, floorwise they're still on 82 but I take it to the pinnacle of concrete construction.
exluding the steel reinforcing that pokes out above the yellow (now brown) panels!

It can't be classed as official sure, but I try only to give the most accurate detail as I can based on the 'facts' we
already know.

However, if the last official height at level 44 was measured to the last finished floor and not to the uppermost construction
then I suppose that would undersell the average level and by now would put the BD above 315m tall.

I'm sure SSC fans, will stick to their number, for now we'll stick to ours!

But I think we all agree, that 277m at Level 80 was understated!

A strange perspective!

....twising the picture still doesn't give one a sense of dimentional perspective!

the construction thing were you have the tower with it under construction on the front could you update that all the time

There was a Megastructures episiode about concrete structures on the 14th November that had a ten minute part on the Burj Dubai whilst at level 30, so was quite old but at least someone is documenting it!

Whether it will be shown before or after completion remains to be seen!